Jerzy Skolimowski

After an expat Russian dancer gets stranded in the USSR, he forms an unlikely bond with the American defector he's been assigned to live with.

After a teenage mother dies during childbirth, midwife Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's relatives. Guided by the girl's personal diary she meets Semyon, the charming proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant who impeccably masks his cold and brutal acts as the head of one of London's most notorious Eastern European Crime families.